James Ostrowski

Articles

DiLorenzo and His Critics on the Lincoln Myth

04/15/2003 Essays in Political Economy James Ostrowski

“Lincoln was a typical example of the humanitarian with the guillotine: a familiar modern ‘reform liberal’ type whose heart bleeds for and yearns to ‘uplift’ remote mankind, while he lies to and...

Power over Principle

02/01/2004 Free Market James Ostrowski

The Free Market 24, no. 2 (February 2004) I write this dutifully and joylessly in the manner of someone taking out the garbage or performing some other unpleasant task that’s been done before but...

A Letter to the President of IBM

07/01/1991 Free Market James Ostrowski

The Free Market 9, no. 7 (July 1991) Dear Sir: I noticed the following headline in the New York Times recently: “Earnings Plunge at IBM—Quarterly Sales Fall Across Most of Line.” Another Times story...

Media

James Ostrowski: The Illiberal Progressive Mind

05/15/2015 James Ostrowski Jeff Deist

Jeff Deist and Jim Ostrowski discuss how progressives managed to capture the 20th century.

Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?

01/08/2009 James Ostrowski

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.

The Why of Gun Ownership

07/06/2011 James Ostrowski

Something happened in Buffalo, New York, that contradicts the propaganda of those who support “gun control”, writes James Ostrowski. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey.

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